News

August 22, 2017: Joint
letter to the Mayor of Ottawa and Council, urging them
to end the practice of proclaiming “March for Life Day” and
approving anti-choice flag-raisings. (letter from ARCC, Action
Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, Planned Parenthood
Ottawa, and Ontario Women’s Committee for Unifor Canada.)

July 25, 2017: Take
action against aborted fetus images in public!Extremist
anti-choice groups have been invading cities across Canada and
forcing citizens to view shocking and graphic photos of
alleged aborted fetuses. Here's some actions you can take to
oppose these offensive tactics.

April 8, 2017: Letter
to City of Prince Albert, SK, asking the
city - again - to not approve an anti-choice flag and
proclamation. The City has allowed an anti-choice flag to be
flown at City Hall for the last eight years as part of a
“Celebrate Life Week” that the City has also officially
proclaimed. The flag and proclamation are discriminatory
against women and transgender people. Also see our letter
of May 15, 2016.

February 26, 2017: Please help us stop government
funding of "crisis pregnancy centres". We're launching a "Letter
of the Week" campaign targeting specific gov't agencies
and officials. Check the link for the latest sample letter you
can send!

January 3, 2017 - Anti-Abortion
Bus Ads Nixed – Alberta City Wins Lawsuit. For safety
reasons, the City of Peterborough should now refuse the same
ad. The Alberta court ruled that the CCBR’s free speech
rights are outweighed by the harm the ad would cause to the
City of Grande Prairie’s ability to “maintain a safe and
viable community”. Further, the court said the ad would likely
cause psychological harm to women who have had an abortion or
may be considering one.

May 15, 2016 - Letter
to City of Prince Albert, SK, asking the city to stop
approving anti-choice flags and proclamations. The City has
allowed an anti-choice flag to be flown at City Hall for the
last seven years, as part of a “Celebrate Life Week” that the
City has also officially proclaimed. These discriminatory
actions by the city must end.

March 8, 2016 - Letter
to City of Peterborough, to Protest Allowing Anti-choice Ads
on Buses - “CCBR ad contravenes the Charter’s
Section 15, AND the Canadian Advertising Code” - This
letter was sent to the City of Peterborough via email on Feb
25. We asked the City to rescind its approval of offensive
anti-choice ads to appear on backs of buses, sponsored by the
extremist group “Centre for Bioethical Reform”.

December 15, 2015 - ARCC is pleased to announce our revised Vision and Mission and our expanded Mandate to support
Reproductive Justice. ARCC supports the concept of
Reproductive Justice because we recognize that the sexual and
reproductive health and rights of people from many diverse
communities are disproportionately affected by marginalization
and oppression. Reproductive Justice needs in Canada cover a
broad spectrum and ARCC therefore endorses a variety of
programs or rights to ensure justice for all women and
marginalized groups. Please see our new paper on Reproductive
Justice for more information. We have also published new
papers on Transgender
Inclusivity, and Sex Workers’
Rights Are Human Rights.

May 24, 2015 - Our letter
of complaint to the Regional District of Central Okanagan,
which approved a permit for an anti-choice display and event
in a public park in Kelowna. Signs and volunteers basically
advocated the restriction of pregnant people’s Charter rights
by falsely claiming they have abortions right up to the ninth
month of pregnancy.

March 29, 2014 - ARCC has sent this letter
and Position
Paper against parental consent laws to all Saskatchewan
Members of Parliament, in response to an anti-choice campaign
that seeks to pass a law in Saskatchewan mandating parental
consent for abortion. Such a law would be unconstitutional and
harmful to the health of youth.

January 29, 2013 - ARCC has sent an Open Letter to
the mayor and council of Abbotsford BC, asking them to rescind
their approval of an anti-choice sign beside the freeway,
displayed along with 1000s of crosses in a farmer’s field.

January 2012 - Don’t
Be Fooled by Fake Clinics - The Kamloops Pregnancy Care
Centre has been selected as a charity beneficiary for the
Christmas Cheer Fund by the Kamloops Daily News, but do people
really understand what this centre stands for? It’s an
anti-abortion Christian ministry that tries to dissuade women
from having abortions.

October - Join the Pan-Canadian Day of Action for Reproductive
Justice: Equal Access Now! - October 20, 2012.
Participate or organize an event in your city to bring
attention to the lack of access to abortion and other sexual
and reproductive healthcare services in underserved areas of
Canada. Our
Demands (1-page PDF document)

August 2012 - ARCC asks the Western
Fair District to stop its long-standing practice of
allowing an anti-choice exhibit at the Western Fair in London,
Ontario. The exhibit appears to violate several clauses of the
Fair’s rules and regulations. It also “offends the spirit of a
family fair, exploits and manipulates children, negates the
right to privacy of parents, abuses the trust of parents,
presents one-sided propaganda, and promotes discrimination
against women”.

March 2012 - Kickstarting
PEI’s Pro-choice Movement - Kandace Hagen shares her
courageous personal story of how she struck back against the
PEI health system that failed her. She succeeded in increasing
national awareness about the lack of abortion services on PEI
and forcing the Province to address it.

March 2012 - Angus Reid
Takes Sides - With the Anti-Choice - In February, the
polling agency Angus Reid lashed out angrily at ARCC’s
exposure of their latest poll as fatally flawed and biased,
confirming our suspicions that Angus Reid has lost all
impartiality and become stridently anti-choice.

October 2011 - Why Abortion
Care Must Be Fully Funded. Defunding abortion would be
unconstitutional, discriminatory, and harmful to women. These
points explain why. (Also, each point is expanded upon here
with detailed arguments, evidence and citations.)

April 3, 2011 - Check out our Politics and Elections
page, with resources and news related to elections, private
member bills, and ARCC’s political campaigns.

March 10, 2011 - Abortion Provider
Appreciation Day - Thank you to all the brave and
dedicated heroes and heroines who dedicate their daily lives
to helping women and making reproductive choice possible!

February 2010 - It’s About
Abortion Stupid! - Conservative politicians and
commentators have heaped scorn on Michael Ignatieff’s call to
not exclude abortion and contraception from Harper’s plan to
address maternal and child health in developing countries. But
his critics have launched attacks without the benefit of any
facts, and even less compassion for women.

October 2009 - Check out our Student
Resource Page! We offer a range of campus organizing
tools and resources, including a handbook on starting a
pro-choice group, buttons, stickers, posters, rally chants,
Q&A’s, information sheets, and resource lists. All are
free to use and distribute.

April 2009 - Norma
Scarborough Remembrances. Canada’s pro-choice matriarch
died on April 2, 2009. She was a founding member of the
Canadian Abortion Rights Action League. This piece is a
collection of remembrances compiled by Amanda Le Rougetel.